A leading contestant for the national chairman of the ruling All Progressives Party, APC, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, has said that he is in good stead to administer the party effectively.
Mr Adamu, believed to enjoy the endorsement of President Muhammadu Buhari ahead of the national convention of the party, frowned at those opposed to his nomination for the plum job.
Mr Adamu who spoke through his aide, Samuel Jimba, was reacting to calls by Aliyu Audu-led stakeholders of the party that he lacks the credentials to be chairman of the party.
Mr Adamu, a former governor Nasarawa State between 1999 and 2007, described the critics as “faceless groups”.
Who are the National Stakeholders Group? I don’t know whether they want to consider themselves stakeholders for which those they are accusing are not stakeholders. I don’t see any identity that qualifies them to become national stakeholders as opposed to other persons who have significantly contributed to the party and who qualify as party icons, party leaders and party stakeholders.
“So, as far as I am concerned, they do not carry sufficient weight to deserve any attention at the national level and they should not cause unnecessary distractions for what the APC is set to do, which is to hold a convention that becomes a classic example of how every political party should hold a convention, come March 26 this year. So, for me they do not deserve the attention that they want to generate for themselves.
As far as we are concerned Sen. Abdullahi Adamu is an experienced politician. He had been an activist since his student days. He was part of those who formed the National Union of Nigerian Student. He was a foundation member of NUNS before it became National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS).
“He later became the first national Vice President of NANS and from there became a leader in the NPN, where he was state secretary and state chairman and member of the National Executive Committee.
“As you know, he was a two-time governor and a ranking three-term Senator. So, what experience do you need that this man does not have and then they begin to throw a lot of tissues and lies on the man’s character, we will not answer them because they don’t deserve that attention,” he added.
